Prosecutors, judges, historians and politicians have made huge efforts in recent years to describe the boundaries of genocide: when mere mass murder stops and the ultimate human crime starts.
She has served 35 years, a big portion of her life sentence, and pleads to be released; if the crime were mere robbery-murder and not deemed political, she would, by custom, have been paroled, with good behavior.
Perhaps a conviction as a mere accomplice to murder under joint venture liability would have secured a punishment for Hernandez comparable to that of first-degree murder or at least close to it.
While many had recently learned that Palin could be unpredictable ― even a maverick, perhaps ― Americans couldn't have foreseen her conducting a lengthy on-camera interview while live birds were being fed into a machine of mass turkey murder mere feet behind her.
While many had recently learned that Palin could be unpredictable -- even a maverick, perhaps -- Americans couldn't have foreseen her conducting a lengthy on-camera interview while live birds were being fed into a machine of mass turkey murder mere feet behind her.
"The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence," he said.
There's a video in "The Road Movie," a seemingly innocuous one, of the Kremlin and its surroundings, time-and-date-stamped February 28 , 2015 at half past midnight — a mere hour after the murder occurred.
I ask because the senselessness of his death was successfully papered over by the spectacular splendour of the opening ceremonies and the otherworldly performance of Michael Phelps, who won his first gold medal mere hours after the murder.
This murder, occurring mere steps from City Hall, was notable only because it happened downtown, far away from the poorest, darkest and most desperate corners of the city.
